Ticket-case.



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TlCKET CASE.

APPLICATION FH ED MAYL 19I5.

Patented Aug. 7,1917.

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TICKET CASE.

APPLICATION \FILED MAY 11. I915.

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ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE 13. HEBINGTON, 0F ALl IAMBltA, cALIFoimB.

TICKET-CASE.

To all whom it may concern .1 p

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. HE R1NG- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alhambra, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket- Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relatesto ticket-casesparticularly for use in connection with the handling, storing, examining, checking, selling and other manipulation of railway or other transportation tickets of any form, whether card, coupon, book, pad or other styles of tickets. i The object of my invention is to provide a ticket-case for the 'more convenient and compact storage of tickets ready for sale, and for greater expedition in their .sale, thereby saving room and-time.

My invention consists essentially in a plurality of ticket-tube-carriers adapted for independent movement in parallel paths, and so mounted and disposed that at one portion of said paths, said carriers will present their ticket-tubes within convenient-reach of the selling agent, and in such position that they can readily be removed and replaced. It also consists in the novel ticket-case which I shall now fully describe by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my ticketcase, its cover being broken in part.

Fig.2 is a sectional elevation ofthe same in a plane at right angles to its axis.

Fig. 3 is a detail fragmentary front view showing one of the tube-carriers.

1 is a casing having an opening 2 at its upper inner portion, which opening is pro.

vided with aroll-top cover 3. 4: is a shaft mounted in the casing.

Upon this shaft, as an axis, are mounted the rotatable tube-carriers-5. There -is a plurality of these carriers,

carrier comprises a-plurality of spaced disks between which the tube-holders, hereinafter described, are mounted. Anysuitable power determined position there is mounted on the shaft 4 a ratchet-like disk 7, one for each rotatablecarrier. One of these r shown in Fig. 2. The rotatabl mers ' Specificationof Letters Patent.-

as here shown, and each is independently rotatable. Each carry the spring controlled pawls 8 adapted to engage with the ratchet 7. This engagement may be adjust'ed as to pressure, by

means of the screws ,9. This pawl and ratchet device is of a formwhich will enable the carriers 5 to move in either direction, but will quickly and accurately bring them' to rest when the rotating presure is removed.

'Each carrier 5 is provided, between its T component :disks, with a circumferential seties of tube -holders. These holders may be of various constructions. I have here shown them as sheaths or sleeves 10, which, as

shown in Fig. 3, are carried by brackets 11,

said sheaths and brackets .servingto unite the component disks of each carrier. Each Patented Aug. '7, 1917.

Application filed May 17,- 1 915. Serial No. 28,596.

may be radial, but I prefer to dispose them at an angle to the radial planes as shown in Fig. 2. I I v In each holder is removably carried a ticket-tube'12. The tubes are slipped into the holders, with their outer ends projecting and preferably beveled, and they are held in the holders, with sufficient pressure by means of the springs 13. The ticket tube holders 10 are adapted to receive the tickettubes 12, which tubes have an offset side wall 12' near their outer ends, thus increasing the cross sectional area of the outer portion of each tube. This is done in order that the inner portions of the ticket tubes 12 are'of less cross sectional area than the outer portions thereof permitting the loose tickets to be maintained in the tubes, yet allowing the free ends of the tickets to separate whereby a single ticket may be readily grasped at a time without disturbing the remaining tickets within a tube. The ticket tube 1 ')ld-' ers 10 .have one sidewall of less-length than the other so as to permit the offset portions 12" of each ticket tube to lie in substantial alinement with the reduced side portions of the holders.

. The tubes have varlous cross sectional dimensions and shapes, as will be seen in Fig. 1, inorder 'to adapt them for the various forms of tickets, which are placed in them.

In using thedevice, the ope'rator turns any the casing 1.

.ing having an open I described.

- each side of my ticket-case.

Itfwill now be seen that a large number of ticket tubes may be spaced in a comparatively small area and still be quickly acc'esssible to a persondesiring toextract, insert, or audit or examine their contents, and

the tubes themselves may be easily removed and replaced, for -fi1ling them or -for repairs. I claim 1. A ticket case comprising a suitable cascarriers disposed parallel with each other moun'te'd in said casing'for rotation past the opening therein, a plurality of separated individual holders attached to the side portions of said parallel carriers and suspended 'therebetween, ticket tubes removably seated in said holders and having open outer ends aocessible'from the opening within the cas-. in and means for retaining said ticket tu es within theiholders, substantially as 2. A device of the character described comprising a rotatable carrier, ticket tube portion, a plurality of 1 holders supported thereby, and each having" one side wall of a length greater than the other, removable open-ended ticket tubes adapted to receive a supply of tickets within said holders, each tube having an offset side wall'near its open end portion, whereby the ticket receiving space of each tube is abruptly enlarged near its outer end.

3. A device of the character described comprising a rotatable carrier, ticket tube holders supported thereby, and each having one side wall of'a length greater than the other, removable open-ended ticket tubes adapted to receive a supply of tickets within said holder, each tube having an ofi'set side Wall near its open end portion, whereby the ticket receiving space of each tube is abruptly enlarged near its outer end, the ofiset Walls of the ticket tube holders being dis- .posed in substantial'alinement .with the upper edges of the short side walls of the holders, substantially as described.

4. A device of the character described comprising a holder, a ticket tube supported thereby, the'said-tube having an offset side wall near its outer open end, whereby the ticket-receiving cavity is abruptly enlarged near its outer end to permit the ends of the tickets within the tube to separate.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subsorlblng witnesses.

Witnesses: WM. F. BOOTH D. B. RICHARDS.

. GEORGE B. HERINGTON. 

